CEE 665

Principles of Combustion

 

Catalog data:

20-257-665. Principles of Combustion. 3 cr. Chemical and physical fundamentals   of combustion processes. Formation and control of primary and secondary

gaseous pollutants. Combustion applications: the combustion of solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels, internal combustion engines, and hazardous waste incinerators.

 

Prerequisites:

Basic thermodynamics and transport or permission of the instructor.

 

 

Textbook:

Glassman, Irvin , Combustion, 3rd ed. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1996, ISBN: 0122858522

 

References:

1. Flagan, R.C. and Seinfeld, J.H., Fundamentals of Air Pollution Engineering, 1st Edition, Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1987.

2. Selected journal publications

 

Coordinator:

Dr. Mingming Lu;  Rhodes Hall  797;  Phone: 513-556-0996 

Email: mingming.lu@uc.edu

 

Goals:

Fundamentals of combustion; application of thermodynamics; formation and control of pollutants. Applications in coal combustion; waste incineration; automobile emissions; and aircraft emissions.

 

Lecture or lab topics:

1. Combustion fundamentals (fuels, stoichiometry, thermodynamics and flame properties).

2. Chemical kinetics and formation mechanisms of NOx, HCs and soot.

3. Liquid fuel combustion.

4. Solids combustion (coal combustion and different combustion devices)

5. Gaseous fuel combustion
6. Pollutant formation and destruction in waste incineration.

7. Operation and design of internal combustion engines.

8. Student presentation of term projects.

 

Computer

usage:

Spreadsheets and CHEMKIN, a software package that simulates flow, equilibrium and combustion applications

 

 

ABET criterion 3:

A, e, g, j, k

 

 

ABET criterion 8:

a, b, d, f

 

 

Date prepared:

December 12, 2002